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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,396, dated April1'], 1888. Application filed October 31, 1887. Serial No. 253.864. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN 0. LOVE and JAMES F. Snnmxnn, both citizens ofthe United States and residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain Improvements in Railway-Cars, of which the following isa specification.

The object of our invention is to construct a car and truck in such amanner and to so pivot the truck to the car that the truck will becapable of carrying the motor to propel the car, as fully describedhereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure l is aside view of our improved car.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transversesectional view on the line 1 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view, and Fig.bis a detached plan view of the truck. Our invention is especiallyadapted to cars propelled by electricity, in which the motor is on thecar and connected to underground wires, the connections being madethrough a conductor passing through a slot in a conduit; but it will beunderstood at the outset that other generators may be used, as well asother motors than electric motors.

Referring to the drawings, A is the body of the car, in the general formof the ordinary street-car, having in the rear a single axle, B, withits wheels b, and pivoted to the front of the car at d is a truck, D,having in'the present instance four wheels, and consequently two axles,D.

The truck, as will be noticed in Fig. 5, is pivoted somewhat in front ofthe front axle, and has a segment, E, at the rear, which is adapted tobear againsta segment, F, on the body of the car; but between thesegment F and the body of the car we place two or more spring-boxes, G,and between the front of the truck and the car we prefer to place aheavy spring, e, surrounding the king-bolt l, on which the trucktnrns,thespringsabsorbing theshock occurring from unevenness of thetrack. Friction-pulleys may be placed between the plates E and F, iffound necessary, for the easy turning of the truck. The floor N of theear directly above the truck is raised to about the level of the seats,as shown in Fig. 2, and in fact we have formed a transverse seat, a, onthis elevated floor. A partition, A, divides by preference the mainportion of the car from the portion occupied by the operator orattendant. It will thus be seen that the floor of the operators quartersis elevated considerably above the floor of the car. The object ofelevating the floor at this point is to allow the truck to carry themotor.

In the present instance we have shown a box or casing, M, between thefront and rear axles of the truck and between the side frames, thebottom of the casing being considerably below the top of the truck, andthe bottom boards, it, being supported' on suitable stringers, h, whichin turn are supported by brackets H, secured to the cross-frames onthetruck. On this bottom frame, as shown in Fig. 2, the motor l rests.

We have shown in the drawings an electric motor, and will thereforedescribe the connections.

The conductor 5 carries the wires from the trolley in the conduit to themotor, and to the operating-keys i in thepresentinstance,shown on apedestal, I, in the operators room on the car. Pivoted to hearings onthe truck at j is a two-armed lever, J. havin preferably'two yoked ends,one of which is a apt'ed to fit over the conductor 13, which has a pinadapted to a slot in the yoked portion of the lever, while the oppositeyoked end of the lever spans the end of a shaft or rod, is, also havinga. pin adapted to a slotin the lever. The vertical rod it passes bypreference through the center of the king-bolt l, and is connected atits upper end to the short arm of the bell-crank lever K, pivoted to abearing, K, secured to the truck or floor of the car. The long arm ofthis lever is in the form of a handle,and is provided with the usuallocking-bolt, and by operating this lever the trolley in the conduit canbe raised or lowered in the conduit to bear against the wires thereinor,when circumstances require, the trolley can be lifted out of theconduit by moving the lever to such a position that the bolt will engagewith the second notch of the segment, as shown in Fig. 2. The conductor2 i aarass i is adapted to bearingsin a box, L, piv ted at Z to thecross-beams of the. truck, in or er to allow for irregularities in theconduit.

We prefer that thesides of the car-body at the front of the car shall beat the same distauce' from the ground as the sides of the main. portionof the bod y, so that the car will havethe appearance of an ordinarycarwith double front truck. We also prefer to make the front of the car inthe form of the segment of a cir-' cle or rounded in any manner, and theheight of the compartment occupied by the operator we prefer toextend-to the level of the roof of the ventilator A, as shown in Figs. 1and 2, and to place windows a at the rear of the compartment and abovethe roof of the car proper, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 3, and 4, inorderthat the operator can see in the rear of the car as well as infront.

The motor I is geared to the front axle, D,

through a train of gears, 1 2 3-4, the pinion 1 being secured to theshaft of the motor and the gear 4 secured to the axle, while the gear 2and pinion 3 are by preference secured together and loose on a stud, 5,on the truck D; but it will be understood that any suitable gearing maybe used, this depending on the style and speed of motor used.

We provide the floor N with a trap-door,

N, by which the operator can gain access to the motor, and in some caseswe may set glass in' a portion of the floor, as shown at it, through"which the operator can watch the working of .the motor.

We have omitted thebraking mechanism on the drawings, but would say thatbraking mechanism of any ordinary construction may be used and operatedfrom a wheel or lever in the operators quarters.

We claim as our invention- 1. A car having a front truck pivoted theretoand carrying a motor, the floor of the car above the truck being higherthan the main floor to accommodate the motor, and the sides of thecar-body being at a cpiform distance from the ground throughout, allsubstantially 2. The combination of a four-wheeled truck, a motorcarried thereby. and a pivot located away from the center of the truck,whereby the space for the motor is increased, all substantiallyas'specified.

3; A car having a floor on different levels, a partition dividing thecar into two compartments, and-a seat in one compartment formed by anextension of the floor of the other compartment, substantially asspecified.

' 4. The combination of a four-wheeled truck, pivoted in front of thecenter and carryingax'les D D ,with a box, M, for containing a motor,situated between the axles, subskantially as specified.

5. The car having an elevatedfloor, a truck below said floor, apivot-pin or king-bolt, a

conductor, an operating-lever, and a rod connecting the two together,said rod passing through the king-bolt, substantially as specified.

6. Acar having the floor of the operators quarters elevated above themain floor of the car,with windowsa in the rear of the operatorsquarters, but above the roof of the'main body of the car, substantiallyas set forth. y

7. The combination of a car with a' pivoted truck, the permanent floorof the car extending over the truck',with a motor on the truck,- andbelow the said floor, an operating-lever carried by the truck, andextending up above the floor of the car,. all substantially asdescribed.t In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN 0. LOVE. JAMES F. SNEDIKEB. Witnesses: y

HENRY HOWSON, .HARRY SMITH.

